Vehicle-lamp attachment.



A. G. THOMSON.

I VEHICLE LAMP'ATTAOHMENT. APPLICATION FILED D110. 8, 1908'.

WITNESSES} I INVENTDR i ARTHUR GALE THOMSON l "BY HIS ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 12,1909.

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VEHICLE-LAMP ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 12, 1909.

Application filed December 8, 1908. Serial No. 486,448.

To au'l'ubko'm it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR GALE THOM- soN, citizen of the United States, residing an the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Lamp Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a connection or attachment for automobile lamps whereby the lamp or lamps will be turned in unison with the front steering wheels so that the rays of the lamp or lamps will becast along the road in the actual ection of travel.

Automobile lamps are generally mounted rigidly on the machine frame and always cast their rays ina line substantially parallel with the vehicle body. The result is that in traveling over a crooked road, or in turning from side to side in traveling along the road, obstructions and embankments are freit is too late for the driver to correct or check his course and so prevent an accident;

My object is to so-mount will turn from side to side synchronously with the movements of the steering wheels, sothat a driver can always see exactly what is ahead of him in the immediate direction of travel.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of' parts. as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, v in which- Figure 1 is a plan view. elevation. y

In the embodiment of my invention the Fig. 2 is a front lamps, which are' represented at A, are

adapted to becarried on the lamp brackets 2 which are carried on the posts 3. Each post 3 is arranged to tn .11 in suitable bcarings providedby the brackets 4, which latter areseeured in any suitable manner to the body of the machine. \Vhere two lamps are used, as is customary, the posts or studs 3 are suitably connected, as by the arms 5 and adjustable links 6, so that the two lamps will swing in unison. The links 6 extend between the front steering wheels 9 of. the

vehicle and carry rollers 7 at their outer a lamp that it l which the links and lampsmay readily be and the rollers gaged directly thereby ring plates 8.fixed on the inner side of the wheels 9; these 'linksbeing slotted, as "shown at 10, and perforated, as shown at 11, by

adjusted to any machine, the links being securely locked together as one piece, by suitable means, as the nuts and bolts "12. The links have a pivotal connection through one or other of the holes 11 with the lamps,

7 are spaced apart a distance just equal to the distance between the bearing rings 8, so that no matter which way the wheels-v9 turn, they will always cause the lamps to turn too;-so that the raysof light of the lamps will be cast forward alays between the planes of the two wheels. v Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-- 1. In an auto1nobile,.the combination with the body and the steering wheels thereof, of a lamp pivot-ally mounted on the body, and means extending between the wheels and enunison with the wheels.

I 2. The combination in anautomobile, with the body and steering wheels thereof, of a lamp mounted to swing from side to side, a

bar extending between the wheels and-en gageableby the wheels to reciprocate the to turn the lamp in ends adapted to bring constantly on the bar, and connec ions. between the bar and the latter in unison with the lamp to turn inc wheels a 3. In an automobile, the combination with the body-and steering wheels thereof, of a lamp mounted to swing from side to side, an extendible bar arranged between the wheels and having rollers at its ends, each roller engaged by a wheel and said bar reciprocated by the wheels, and connect-ions between the lamp and said bar to turn the lamp in unison with the wheels.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence oi two subscribing witnesses. r

ARTHUR GALE THOMSON. Witnesses CHARLES A. PENFIELI), CHARLES EDELMAN. 

